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HAME. No. 406,351. I Patented July 2, 1889.

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VILLIAM V. KAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,351, dated July 2, 1889.

. Application filed September 4, 1888. $erial No. 284,537. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM V. KAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hames, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement is intended, especially, for use in hames designed for heavy teaming, wherein, owing to the great strain exerted upon the hames in drawing, proportionate strength is required to resist the tendency of the strain to bend the hames out of shape and thereby impair or destroy their usefulness. \Vhile it is, accordingly, desirable that the hames shall be rendered sufficiently strong to serve their purposes, as aforesaid, the required additional strength may not be provided by merely increasing the amount of material to thicken the art-icle, since thereby the latter would not only be rendered unsightly in appearance and clumsy, but would materially add to the weight, which, of course, would be a serious objection.

My object is to provide a duly strong hame for express and other heavy teaming purposes, as well as for carriage and other light harnesses, without increasing, but rather clecreasing, the cost of its manufacture, as hitherto constructed, and the form of which shall be such as to afford an attractive appearance to the article.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a hame of my improved construction and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, including a modification in its construction.

A is the hame, having, as parts, the section 0", which is formed of metal reduced to a desired ordinary shape and provided on one endwith an eye or loop q for the hamestrap. The opposite end may, if desired, be ornamented, as by a knob 19. At the outer side of the section r, and extending from between one end thereof and the adjacent stud, hereinafter described, or place of attachment for the tug or trace to near the other end, is

a brace 4, which is'bent outward between its extremities, having a space 3 between it and the section, across which space extend strengthening-ribs'o, which may be letters, as shown in Fig. 2, or other configurations or signs, according to desire. The brace 1' may be connected with the section 7 by riveting or by welding it to the same, when the ribs 0 could be integral with one of the two parts 1" and r and secured at their free extremities to the other, or they could be separate pieces secured at their ends to the opposing surfaces of the two parts. It is, however, desirable to form or cast the parts 7' r and 0 as a whole, or integral, this being the manner in which I greatly prefer to produce it, when loops or studs 12 and m, (shown in Fig. 1,) respectively, to receive the line-ring n and ring m for the holdback or breast strap, may be formed integrally with the two parts r and r, as shown, and serve to afford additional bracing strength to them.

As shown in Fig. 2, the parts n and 12' form a rigid terret, braced from the section 0" and brace-piece r, and serve the same purpose as the parts similarly denoted in Fig. 1; and the parts an m, Fig. 2, shown to be rigid and integral, afford the draft-eye 7c and a strengthening-rib between the brace r and section 0". Toward the upper end of the device are shown a series of openings Z for the hamestraps.

By the foregoing construction the hame is of skeleton form and is rendered both light and strong, the brace 'r serving to strengthen it most at the part where it has to resist the greatest strain-namely, from a point above that at which the lower hame-strap is applied to the draft-eye 7c, and thence to the terret or ring a, and the strengthening-ribs or crosspieces 0, if made in the form of letters or other signs, may serve to ornament the device, besides performing the more important function of affording a means of identifying it, and also permitting their use as a means of advertisement.

To apply the device to its purpose when, of

course, it is in duplicate, the sections 0- are fitted to extend around the collar under the rim thereof, as usual.

What I claim new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A skeleton hame comprising the section "I", a brace 1", extending along the outer side of the said section from between one extremity thereof and the adjacent stud or place of attachment for the tug or trace to near the opposite extremity and affording a space s, and strengthening-ribs 0, connecting the sec tion 1' and brace 7* across the space 3, sub stantially as described.

\VILLIAM V. KAY. In presence of J. W. DYRENFORTH, M. J. BoWERs. 

